CROSS GENERATIONAL INFLUENCES ON DEV OF AGGRESSION

攻击行为发展的跨代影响

基本信息

批准号：
6182405
负责人：
L ROWELL HUESMANN
金额：
$ 49.74万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
1998
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
1998-09-30 至 2003-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

The proposed research is aimed at elaborating our understanding of how environmental/contextual and individual/ personal factors combined with cognitive processes to influence the transmission of aggressive and antisocial behavior across generations as well as over the life span. By collecting psychosocial data on the children of 856 subjects whom we have studied previously at ages 8 (1960), 19 (1971), and 30 (1982), and by collecting new data on the subjects, we will be able to address several critical issues for understanding the development of human aggressive behavior and its transmission across generations. We will be able to examine the stability or change in aggressive behavior across three generations or in few cases even four generations. Moreover, we will be able to examine continuity across parent-child pars in which the child subjects vary from 4 years old to about 24 years. Of special interest will be the degree to which childhood aggression in one generation is predictive of childhood aggression in the next, and the degree to which different trajectories in the development of aggressive or prosocial behavior in one generation affect the occurrence of aggressive, prosocial, or other behaviors in the next. Within one generation we will be able to evaluate the trajectory of aggressive behavior over a 40-year span from middle childhood at age 8 to middle-age at age 48. This study will enable us to derive a better understanding of the processes underlying continuity and change in aggressive and antisocial behavior within the life-span and across generations. We expect to find substantial continuity of aggression over time and across generations. However, the more important questions are why such continuity occurs, what mediates what, what moderates it, and what can deflect a trajectory of developing aggressive behavior. We will examine the extent to which the degree of continuity of aggressive behavior over time and across generations as a product of the continuity of environmental/contextual factors (e.g., parent childrearing practices, socioeconomic context, television viewing environment) or of personal/individualized factors (e.g., intellectual achievement, social competence, aggression-related cognitions). We will identify those contextual and individual variables that place individuals at greater or lesser risk for later aggressive behavior and those that promote or inhibit the cycle of aggressive behavior across generations. Finally, we will evaluate the role of cognitive, information-processing factors as mediators in a social- learning process that teachers children life-long aggressive habits and promotes transmission across generations.

拟议的研究旨在阐述我们对环境/背景和个人/个人因素与认知过程，以影响侵略性和跨世代以及整个寿命的反社会行为。经过收集有关我们拥有的856个科目的孩子的社会心理数据先前在8岁（1960），19（1971）和30（1982）的研究收集有关主题的新数据，我们将能够解决几个了解人类积极发展的关键问题行为及其跨几代的传播。我们将能够检查三个攻击行为的稳定性或变化几代人或少数情况下甚至四代。而且，我们将能够检查孩子之间的连续性受试者从4岁到大约24年不等。特别感兴趣的成为一代童年侵略的程度预测下一个儿童侵略，以及在侵略性或亲社会发展中的不同轨迹一代人的行为会影响侵略性，亲社会的发生或下一个行为。在一代中，我们将能够评估40年内侵略行为的轨迹 8岁至中年的中年童年48岁。这项研究将使我们能够更好地了解连续性的基础过程以及侵略性和反社会的变化生命中和世代相传的行为。我们希望找到侵略的实质性连续性随着时间的流逝和跨几代人。但是，更重要的问题是为什么发生这种连续性，什么调解什么，调节它，以及什么可以偏转的轨迹发展侵略性行为。我们将研究随着时间和跨越侵略性行为的连续性程度几代人是环境/上下文连续性的产物因素（例如，父母的育儿实践，社会经济背景，电视查看环境）或个人/个性化因素（例如，智力成就，社会能力，与侵略有关认知）。我们将确定那些上下文和单个变量那个人或多或少的风险以后积极进取行为以及促进或抑制侵略性周期的行为跨几代人的行为。最后，我们将评估认知，信息处理因素作为社会中的调解人学习过程，教师儿童终身积极习惯和促进跨几代的传播。